This research analyses cloaked Facebook pages that are created to spread political
propaganda by cloaking a user profile and imitating the identity of a political opponent in …

This research examines how fake identities on social media create and sustain antagonistic
and racist discourses. It does so by analysing 11 Danish Facebook pages, disguised as …

This article analyzes cloaked websites, which are sites published by individuals or groups
who conceal authorship in order to disguise deliberately a hidden political agenda. Drawing …

Facebook has faced growing criticism regarding its handling of hateful user-generated
content (UGC) with research revealing how the platform can foster both covert and overt …

This paper explores the role of satirical pages and groups on Facebook as a means of a
broader discourse strategy of mainstreaming extreme right political positions and populist …

This article addresses the digital culture of Islamophobic bloggers, focusing on the online
circulation of a forensic photograph of a Swedish woman who was assaulted. The analysis …

Social media is an important transmitter of anti-immigration political rhetoric. In this study, we
examine the discussions posted in a Finnish online forum provoked by an MP's anti …

ABSTRACT A persistent story about the 2016 US presidential election was the
preponderance of fake news stories on social media, and on Facebook in particular, that …

Political memes have been previously studied in different contexts, but this study fills a gap
in literature by employing a mixed method to provide insight into the discourses of fake news …

It is commonly recognized that social media presents vast new opportunities for terrorist
groups seeking to radicalize audiences. However, few scholars have studied the actual …